Senior Quantitative Business Analyst - Gauteng - Mesh Trade

    Mesh Trade
    Mesh Trade Gauteng

    1 week ago

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    Role Summary

    The role of Business Analyst is a core responsibility within our product team as we pride ourselves on ensuring that the solutions we build solve real-world problems and create accessibility to financial markets for all.

    We have positions available in Johannesburg and Stellenbosch.

    Your Mission

    1. You will define requirements and lead the team in executing the build of our Mesh.Oracle, which controls and defines all the financial assets issued in Mesh. The Mesh.Oracle is built and run on the Quant Lib library.
    2. You will identify financial and risk management problems and apply mathematical and statistical methods to solve them.
    3. You will define requirements for the implementation of financial and risk management models.
    4. You will manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; reprioritizing and redefining as necessary.
    5. You will perform continuous monitoring and improvement of financial and risk management processes.
    6. You will utilize product implementation methodologies: Lean Startup and Agile development.
    7. You will identify and establish the scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
    8. You will define and document models for solving financial and risk management problems.
    9. You will apply advanced statistical and predictive modeling techniques to build, maintain, and improve on financial product offerings across multiple asset classes.
    10. You will define and specify the requirements for the implementation of financial models by the wider product team.
    11. You will manage requirements for financial model implementation throughout the product delivery lifecycle.
    12. You will continuously monitor the performance of financial products and associated models for improvement.
    13. You will provide business metrics for the overall project to show improvements, as well as ongoing tracking and monitoring of performance.
    14. You will elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders, whether customers or end users.
    15. You will conduct interviews to gather requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, storyboards, use cases, scenarios, or other methods.
    16. You will assist with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options and communicating these back to the business stakeholders.
    17. You will translate conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to the wider product development team.
    18. You will create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to the product development team.
    19. You will develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications, both business and functional.
    20. You will analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
    21. You will conduct peer and team reviews of requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
    22. You will collaborate with project sponsors to implement project scope and vision.
    23. You will work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
    24. You will communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of requirements to stakeholders.
    25. You will research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and developing strategies for enhancing or further improving these processes.
    26. You will stay up-to-date with new requirement tools and strategies.
    27. You will conduct research on products to meet agreed-upon requirements.
    28. You will guide the selection of any requirements documentation software solutions that the organization may opt to use.
    29. You will lead the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.
    30. You will provide guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members.

    About You

    You are a creative problem solver who wants to build a career in a Fintech Startup.

    You communicate clearly and have great interpersonal skills in a dynamic team.

    You are an analytical and detail-oriented individual with strong problem-solving abilities.

    You can work in a team or self-manage (stakeholder and expectations management is important).

    You have 3+ years' experience in Quantitative Research with preferred experience in coding in R/Python/MATLAB in financial services.

    You have working experience in the field of quantitative research.

    You have working knowledge of the financial market across different asset classes, with a particular focus on interest-bearing/fixed income.

    You have working knowledge of standard analysis processes, BPMN, and UML.

    BSc or MSc in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, applied mathematics, finance, engineering, or physics.

    Not required but would be beneficial:

    • Experience working with blockchain or other Financial Market applications.
    • Experience in product development in a lean-led, design thinking focused, and agile team setting.
    • Post-graduate qualification and CFA/FRM advantageous.

    Requirements

    To be considered for this position, you must have:

    • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
    • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
    • Ability to work in a team or self-manage.
    • Knowledge of financial markets and instruments.
    • Programming skills in R/Python/MATLAB.
    • Understanding of data analysis and visualization tools.
    • Strong organizational and time management skills.

    What We Offer

    We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as opportunities for professional growth and development.

    Disclaimer

    If you have not received a response within one month, your application was most likely unsuccessful. Should you, after submission, no longer wish that your information be processed for purposes of this application, you may contact the Company's head office and instruct accordingly.


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